There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in…

“Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the…

— Daniel Abraham

“I find a certain value in lightness.”

— Daniel Abraham

“That's the whole world. You. Me. The sea, the sky. Every retching thing there is. It's all a dream the dragons dream, and if…

— Daniel Abraham

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true…

— Daniel Abraham

“We say our souls want joy, but they don’t,” she said. “They want what they already know, joyful or not.”

— Daniel Abraham

“As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace…

— Daniel Abraham

“Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.”

— Daniel Abraham

“Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.”

— Daniel Abraham

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to…

— Daniel Abraham

“The characters and events in this book are fictitious.”

— Daniel Abraham

“The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous.”

— Daniel Abraham

“And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.”

— Daniel Abraham

“Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.”

— Daniel Abraham

“In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced.”

— Daniel Abraham

“Has it ever struck you people how arrogant you are?" it asked, huge hands taking an attitude of query that bordered on accusation. "You're…

— Daniel Abraham